Thursday, March 17, 2011

Disclaimer: This post contains what is quite possibly the worst pictures I have ever taken in my life. It was getting towards bedtime for most of them... I had to use flash for some of them... I could have waited to take decent pictures, but then it wouldn't have been St. Patty's day anymore.

By the way, I woke up this morning and checked my google reader quickly only to be greeted by St. Patty day well-wishes. It's St. Patty's already??? I had all my posts so carefully planned this week... and apparently I missed the actual date.

This first one is for mini. Because we aren't Irish. But she sure does love kisses. I used picnik for the design.

I especially love how the lip print turned out:

That's freezer paper stencil, too. When I was cutting out the shapes, I just made lots of little cuts irregularly in the shape of the lips - which essentially just shredded the freezer paper. So some chunks got cut out and lots of little slices were cut in, and I think it makes the perfect faded lipstick mark. Although I do wish my lines were cleaner on the letters. That's my exacto's fault. I need a new blade.

Here is the only halfway decent photo of mini:

And this one is bug's. The shirt was kind of weird - the pocket placement was pretty inconvenient, but I'm happy with how it turned out. I also designed this in picnik.

The font I used on picnik was a distressed, faded font, and I wanted that look on the shirt, too. So when I was painting the letters in, I used a stipple brush and dabbed the paint. I layered bright green and white. I really like how that looks. I stippled the dog, too, with only dark green. I like this technique because it totally mimics the grunge/faded/distressed look that's kind of cool right now. I'm not convinced that the shiny fabric paint was the right choice (it's on the dog), but overall I like how it turned out.

And here is the only halfway decent shot of bug. He's currently taking modeling lessons from mini:

And because his favorite color is green, I'm fairly certain I won't be able to get him out of this. We'll see in the morning (because he insisted on sleeping in it.)

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